Pfister, ChristianChristianPfisterWetter, OliverOliverWetter2024-01-192024-01-19http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12422/428This dataset contains - Table S1, Documentary evidence of the 1540 drought in Europe (Austria; Belgium & the Netherlands; Czech Republic; France; Germany I; Germany II (Lake Constance Region); Hungary and Romania; Italy; Poland; Portugal; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom); - Table S2, Number of Precipitation Days (NPD) for Poland (PL) and Switzerland (CH); - Table S3, Number of precipitation days (NPD) in 1540 compared to the 20th-century mean in northern Switzerland and Cracow, Poland; - Table S4, PA estimates compared to previous estimates of Limanówka et al. (2001); - Figure S1, Draws of the model parameters for WCEu for all chains; - Figure S2, Cross correlation between the draws of the parameters for WCEu; - Figure S3, Scatter plots of days with precipitation (NRD) during the instrumental period, 1864 – 2012. Circles = NRD ≥ 3mm precipitation amount; crosses = NRD ≥ 1 mm precipitation amount; - Figure S4, Relative probability of occurrence of extreme drought years:; - Figure S5, 11-year moving average of mean summer (JJA) temperatures for central Europe (1500–2000); - Figure S6, Extract from the chronicle of the vine-grower Hans Stolz from Guebwiller (Alsace, France) for 1540.CC-BYEuropedroughtheatsummer 1540summer 2003Dewey Decimal Classification::500 - Science::550 - Earth sciences & geologyDewey Decimal Classification::900 - History::940 - History of EuropeDataset10.48620/380